In order to support various requirements from the user’s perspective, digital library (DL) systems may need to apply a large variety of services, such as query services for a spe...
Adaptable similarity queries based on quadratic form distance functions are widely popular in data mining application domains including multimedia, CAD, molecular biology or medica...
Information sources in the World Wide Web usually offer two different schemes to their users, an Interface Schema which the user can query and a Result Schema which the user can b...
This paper introduces a new approach of approximating the selectivity of multimedia range queries. Estimating the selectivity of a range query is a pre-requisite to optimize a mul...
Unity is an architecture for integrating relational databases that performs three processes: metadata capture, semantic integration, and query formulation and execution. The found...